LAUNCH FOR HOSPITAL SHIP.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13802, 30 September 1915, Page 3

LAUNCH FOR HOSPITAL SHIP.

PROPOSED GIFT FROM THIS DISTRICT. A. GENEROUS OFFER. 4 Mr G. J. Black has drawn our atten- - tion to a project for supplying an oilJaunch for the hospital . ship Marama, to be the gift of the people of this district. It would be. a very Acceptable and useful testimony to our interest in the great work of mercy upbn whicii the Marama is to bo engaged* Lord Liverpool has announced thai;/, he requires two. launches to complete the equipment of the vessel, and -it is considered that it would-be to the- credit of them * t0 l«ast I *^ l1 * 3 been ih^^mumcation with Mr Chas. Bailey, the- well-known bmlder, of Auckland, whbvconstructed launches for the, Maheno, and hb ; offers to buil<i, a launch- suitable for the Marama, measuring 29ft bv 7ft Gin equiPF^vith a 2oVh^l^ife Loew-yactor engine, fitted with! a™tnc starter electric plant £100 towards the cost of 'the launch if some other subscribers will mlfee uo \hl balance.; He like to bHn Tposi tion to mrtke the .offer of the boat tn Pfh^ Goyernmenfi and to place an o^der w«S Si nce ' •& order that It mav »f, c PMeted immediately.- If a others Interested in th a n PO W L u generous^ W, forward SlffeTof contributions the thing can Ulccom ohshed, and; a very practical nwasure^f